CAIR: US Forced American Muslim to Exile
American Muslim civil rights group CAIR has accused the US government of forcing an American citizen into exile on religious grounds.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on the US Department of Justice to look into the matter.
CAIR said Raymond Earl Knaeble IV, 29, has been placed on a no-fly list and has been unable to return home from Colombia since March.
According to CAIR, Knaeble this week flew to Mexico in hope of traveling to the Mexican-US border, but he instead faced lengthy interrogation by Mexican officials before being sent back to Colombia.
"He was stopped by Mexican authorities as he got off the plane and asked, 'Are you Muslim?' He was then detained for 15 hours and asked many questions relating to his faith," CAIR reported.
The group says it is illegal for a US citizen to be denied entry to his own country while he is not charged with any crime and such actions undermine the US Constitution.
Last week, a group of US lawmakers unveiled legislation that would authorize the government to revoke the citizenship of Americans thought to have joined hardline groups like al-Qaeda, arguing that this would then allow US forces to assassinate them freely.
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person Earl wheby
Arabs & Muslims harassed in U.S.
Arabs & Muslims are being harassed all over the U.S. and the people responsible are the lawyers who dominate all 3 branches of U.S. government, bow before their zionist jewish masters and it is these same lawyers who make foreign policies. They only fight small 3rd world type countires. When Russia invaded U.S. ally of Georgia the Americans ran the other way rather than fight Russia a country their own size. This points up the need for Arab & Islamic unity!person Mike Woorward
Persecution
This is good news. Americans do not know their own history. Persecution never stops a movement. Christianity was persecuted until Constantinople ended it, for military reasons ... and converted only on his deathbed. But then it is bad news for the individuals involved. ... that is America. America will fight an idea (communism, socialism, independence from colonialism, Islam, etc) not with ideas but with bombs. The Taliban is an idea. Its central idea is not the subjugation of women tho that is its characteristic but removal of foreign military from their land. First it was the USSR. Now it is the US. It cannot be killed by bombs. Independence from foreign rule was the idea in Vietnam. Luckily Vietnam survived. They lost five and half million people, and 600,000 in Cambodia which has kind of survived also. The real issue is: can the US militarism survive? Hitler's Germany did not. Hell, can the US survive? Nazism did not. "Mike"
